The central aim of conservation biology is to understand and mitigate the effects of human
activities on biodiversity. To successfully achieve this objective, researchers must take an …

Animal development is an inherently complex process that is regulated by highly conserved
genomic networks, and the resulting phenotype may remain plastic in response to …

Identifying factors that influence how ectothermic animals respond physiologically to
changing temperatures is of high importance given current threats of global climate change …

Many small mammals engage in coprophagy, or the behavior of consuming feces, as a
means to meet nutritional requirements when feeding on low-quality foods. In addition to …

Environmental temperature and gut microbial communities can both have profound impacts
on the digestive performance of ectothermic vertebrates. Additionally, the diversity …

Alterations to the gut microbiome caused by changes in diet, consumption of antibiotics, etc.,
can affect host function. Moreover, perturbation of the microbiome during critical …

The microbiome's capacity to shape the host phenotype and its mutability underlie
theorization that the microbiome might facilitate host acclimation to rapid environmental …

Gut microbial communities provide many physiological functions to their hosts, especially in
herbivorous animals. We still lack an understanding of how these microbial communities are …

Elucidating the role of prokaryotic symbionts in mediating host physiology has emerged as
an important area of research. Since oysters are the world's most heavily cultivated bivalve …

Host‐associated microbial communities consist of stable and transient members that can
assemble through purely stochastic processes associated with the environment or by …